Abraham diamond and otto kohnert



A. DIAMOND &. OnKOHNERT.

(No Model.)

PANTALOONS PROTECTOR.

No. 397,704. Patented Feb. 12, 1889.

INVENTORS- fig; ATTORNEY.

WITNESSES! UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM DIAMOND AND OTTO KOl-INERT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PANTALOONS-PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 397,704, dated February 12, 1889.

Application filed F br ary 20, 1888. Serial No. 264,657. (No model.)

T0 to whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, ABRAHAM DIAMOND and OTTO KOHNERT, citizens of .the United States, and residents of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful lmprovenienbs in Pantaloons-Proteetors, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a removable device which may be temporarily alfixed to shoes, and is intended to be used to support the bottoms of the legs of trousers in rainy weather.

In the drawings, Figure 1 rep resents a blank, A, having the prongs l) and c and the tongues cl. Fig. 2 represents alongitudinal cross-section of the same. Fig. represents an end view of shoe S, having device affixed. Fig. at represents a side elevation of a shoe, S, with a section cut away to show the pantaloons P supported when in use.

Like letters represent like parts.

The blank A having been duly stamped, as required, from suitable metal, the prongs b b are bent over and meet the back of the blank opposite the tongues (l d. The tongues cl (1 are bent outwardly to meet the prongs b, and are intended to assist in clasping the shoe more firmly. The prongs c are bent backward toward the body of the blank A, thus forming a hook, and are intended to receive the bottoms of trousers-legs.

\Vhen it is desirous to use the device, it is simply necessary to slip the hooks formed by the prongs b I) over the top of the shoe, and then slip the bottom of the pantaloons into the hooks formed by the prongs c 0, thus preventing the pants from getting wet.

\Ve find in practice that we can dispense with the prongs and stamp the device out of one piece and turn up the ends in the same manner as we turn up the prongs. In other words, we need not remove the metal frombetween theprongs, thus leaving the ends as single prongs; or, instead of stamping the same out of sheet metal, we may form the same of wire without departing from the spirit of our invention.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A trousers-leg supporter consisting of a single piece of metal having two bent prongs, b b, at one end, and. two bent prongs, c c, at the other end, and two tongues, cl d, which project toward the prongs b 11, substantially as shown and described.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 6th day of January, A. D. 1888.

ABRAHAM DIAMOND, OTTO KOHNERT. Witnesses:

DAVID BLooH, MARCUS BLocH. 

